Background
I use Artix Linux as my workstation, which is based on Arch Linux and adopts Systemd-free approach. In my case, the init system is OpenRC.
My current machine is home-built using AMD Radeon as graphics card and GPU.
Problem
It always failed to start LightDM, a display manager, on boot, and just showed blank screen except a single underscore.
I had to:
- push Alt + F4 to meet XDM console
- enter login password
- run
startxfce4
- enter password again
... every time🤒
Also, Fcitx hadn't worked well for every first boot recently.
It was inconvenient and uncomfortable.
Solution
I followed the Arch Linux documentation below and have become happy😃
First, I edited mkinitcpio.conf
:
# nvim /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
to enable amdgpu
module like this:
- MODULES=""
+ MODULES=(amdgpu)
Then I rebuilt initial ramdisk for Linux kernel:
# mkinitcpio -p linux
That's it. I have got along with LightDM ever since😊
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